Trump Fires Acting Attorney General

Re:Trump Fires Acting Attorney General by rabboRubble on Monday January 30, 2017 @10:27PM (#13527296)

Comes as a surprise as she is the only person in the DOJ authorized to sign off on foreign security letters [0]

How nice that Trump right out of the gate has kneecapped his administration in terms of intelligence gathering! At least until a puppet replacement is approved by the Senate.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/us/politics/trump-immigra...

[Edit: earlier in the day I read that the acting AG was the only Senate approved signatory. As somebody below me pointed out, that is no longer the current interpretation of who is able to sign these letters in the provided link. I'm keeping my post up as originally written because things moved so dang fast today.]

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Re:Trump Fires Acting Attorney General by willstrafach on Monday January 30, 2017 @11:19PM (#13527563)

This is not true. The NYT article has been fixed.

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Re:Trump Fires Acting Attorney General by sp332 on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @09:21AM (#13530710)

Heck it was basically rewritten multiple times. http://newsdiffs.org/article-history/www.nytimes.com/2017/01...

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Re:Trump Fires Acting Attorney General by rabboRubble on Monday January 30, 2017 @11:22PM (#13527583)

Ah! Thanks... things moved so quickly today. Mid afternoon I read she was the only approved signatory. You are indeed correct about the revision.

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